@@HaharuRecords exactly. This scale can be used for much more than metal/film music. And it doesn’t always sound creepy. Ok most of the times it does thi
The simple act of pointing to each chord with the pen as they were being played was so enlightening and helpful for me. The rest of the lesson was excellent too!
Interesting! This scale contains a “diatonic” neapolitan chord based on the 2nd degree, B in your example. By using that you could go through Bb7 and modulate suddenly to Eb major or minor (a tritone away with just one chord in between!!)
Was just learning music theory today and found your channel; so happy I did! A clear, info-rich video about an uncommon scale I've always wanted to learn about - thankyou!
i was studying opeth's style and this scale sounds so close and if u add some sus chords, this will sound amazing. try to play a minor and then a sus 2 and then g sharp minor and then g sharp sus2 u will have a great voice
This one was really helpful. I've got decent working theory knowledge but didn't understand slash chords even though they are featured predominantly in my playing. These videos have really helped me see how slash chords fit in with the use of inversions. Really enjoyed this. I also use Hungarian minor but didn't fully understand it's chord scale until now. Thanks!
I wish the Bb5 was used more in this video. Seems like the tritone was being avoided when he played back that one in particular for some reason. All of these chords in a chord scale sound really beautiful together so not sure why that is. Would've also liked to see the C+ get some love too. I like this video and have only recently started watching your content, but please if you see this, don't be afraid to use those more dissonant chords! Also! Probably not proper chord construction technique but the G# augmented sounds slightly better with the other chords than the G# minor to me.
I was working on a solo for a simple change: C7(9) Bb7(9):II. I clicked on this video of a scale I haven't heard since 4th semester theory, and your example is in the relative minor of the song I'm writing. The perfect solo choice! Coincidence? You decide...Thank-you! 👽
Yusef Lateef also has this scale in his Repository as "Persian" or "Egyptian" scales, just different modes with a huge wealth of exercises to look into. It's also the Bhainav raga in Indian music so really expresses that Eastern sound, I love it!
I just used the "scale finder" tool, pick up the 7 notes (per octave) I like, and the tool finds for me just the "hungarian gypsy minor". Then I went to YT to check it out (how it sounds). I like it very much, and it's nothing weird in my case because I'm a depressive/dissonant black metal lover.
When I improvise using this scale in the key of A#m, I would go with the following chord progression A#m, Am, F#, F. Sometimes I use A# diminished as a switching point between A#m and Am.
I think that we can enharmonize "D#" (Eb) to form a chord of "Ab" with the next notes: "G#" (Ab), C and "D#" (Eb). And we can also use it as a Ab/F and there we have a "Fmin7". The function of this chord could be something like this: "Am" "Ab/F" "E6 9" "E" "Am". And it sound more like Bossa or even Jazz. Or "Am" "Ab/F" "G#m7" Am".
in Miles Davis's 𝐴𝑢𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑦, he claims that, at Juilliard (he was there for 3 semesters), he learned what HE called an "Egyptian minor scale"- which i've since learned was prob THIS Hungarian minor scale. Miles said he even hipped Dizzy Gillespie to this scale...
Oh my god. Thank you so much. This has to be the scale used in clean the intro of Blasphemian by Infant Annihilator. I love that clean guitar intro, and have been trying to figure out how to get that feel somehow, and this is it. Thank you!
If I didn't miss anything, the most common other scaled named "double harmonic minor" can be obtained if you start the scale at "E" instead of "A", so these two scales might be considered different modes over the same scale.
That was amazing! I've been fascinated with the Hungarian Minor Scale for quite some time. It's a really nice, exotic/dark sounding scale when used right, but it does require some understanding first. Thank you for that great video! INSTA SUB! P.S. An interesting song that uses it is the solo of Kind Diamonds's "Black Horsemen" Andy LaRocque did an impressive job as always!
Hello! I loved your explanation of the Hungarian Minor. I am trying to write a piano piece based off of this scale, so it really helped. Would you say that your book explains all the modes and scales like this? I am trying to see if it would be applicable to all instrumentalists other than only guitar. Thanks for this video!
Thanks :) Master of the Modes is designed for guitar, so I don't see it working for other instruments. The explanations are slightly different in there, as I do more "fretboard" work than here.
for D# note we can use the Augmented 6th Chord (Italian or French or German): D# - A - F (with repeated A or added either B or C) F at the bass & D# at the soprano. So it can be like that(F - A - {B or C or repeated A} - D#) Its resolution: F=> E - A=> G# - (repeated A or B or C) => B - D# => E So resolved to the Dominant Chord E
@@qtube9234 Yes (if I undersand your #7 in the same way). Since some musicians notate the 7th degree differently, first I'll start with The Major Scale (Ionian) as a reference: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Then the 5th mode of The Hungarian Minor is 1 b2 3 4 5 b6 7. Another name of this scale is The Byzantine Scale :)
The best example to get into this scale is the folk music of Romania, Transylvania and Hungary. mostly used for violin, accordion and clarinet, look for taraf of haidouks, they are virtuous and impressive
I find that the gypsy-style scales sound cool when you use the diatonic triads of the parent scale. It adds more dissonant possibilities, and some chords don't work ever, but the diatonic contrast really accentuates the character of the modified scale.
on the fourth you really can technically build a triad, it's just a very weird one. it would just have a "diminished third", and would essentially be a diminished triad with a diminished third. I personally think it's worth messing around with in harmonies for this scale.
I'm Hungarian and I think that the chord on D# is indeed usable. It's actally an Italian sixth chord in root position (= a diminished triad with diminished third). Of course, its first inversion is more straightforward by being a plain old It6. See also the last few bars of Crucifixus in Bach's mass in B minor with a German sixth in root position (dim7 with diminished 3rd).
harczymarczy yes! the French augmented sixth also... chord with: F, A, B, D# (enharmonic of F7[#5] . French +6 ---> E ---> A min. Is a very strong cadence!
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I've never seen a white board so clean. Teachers could learn something from him.
Haha... i believe that's not the focus of the video. But now that you mentioned it, yeah i think so too! :D
Or it's post production XD
Its an edit for contrast
Use alcohol spray. 100% ethanol
I think he cleans it with Hungarian apricot brandy!
This scale is awesome for all styles of Metal.
Because it's like lydian and harmonic minor in one scale. So much dissonance=metal as fuck. Lol
It’s incredible
Why some bunch of people like you love metal so much, don't you ever be funky or groovy..
I mean this scale is beautiful.
@@HaharuRecords exactly. This scale can be used for much more than metal/film music. And it doesn’t always sound creepy. Ok most of the times it does thi
@@adam.recording✌️👹
My favorite progression in A Hungarian minor is:
A-...
G#-...
A-...
G#. G#-.
A-...
F...
B7 (b5)...
E...
in loop
Nice!
Nice! You could also hold the F from B7b5 to add a b9 to the E :)
Jere Toikka yes, b9 (dark tense sound) is a great option!
I just sat and watched this with my undivided attention like I actually understood every word.
4:44, now that's beautiful, that Bb5/A just sounds so great. Thank you for this video !
More half steps + spicer scale. That has never occurred to me! Keep them coming :)
Famous Serbian folk punk band "No Smoking Orchestra" use this scale a lot, it's naturally part of traditional Eastern European music culture
The simple act of pointing to each chord with the pen as they were being played was so enlightening and helpful for me. The rest of the lesson was excellent too!
Interesting! This scale contains a “diatonic” neapolitan chord based on the 2nd degree, B in your example. By using that you could go through Bb7 and modulate suddenly to Eb major or minor (a tritone away with just one chord in between!!)
Was just learning music theory today and found your channel; so happy I did! A clear, info-rich video about an uncommon scale I've always wanted to learn about - thankyou!
i was studying opeth's style and this scale sounds so close and if u add some sus chords, this will sound amazing. try to play a minor and then a sus 2 and then g sharp minor and then g sharp sus2 u will have a great voice
Now that you mention it this really reminds me of Opeth!
Thanksssssssssssss
And can you help me with music theory a bit
insta can be helpful
Thanks for considering 😊
I’m Hungarian but never heard about it, thx!!
This one was really helpful. I've got decent working theory knowledge but didn't understand slash chords even though they are featured predominantly in my playing. These videos have really helped me see how slash chords fit in with the use of inversions. Really enjoyed this. I also use Hungarian minor but didn't fully understand it's chord scale until now. Thanks!
I wish the Bb5 was used more in this video. Seems like the tritone was being avoided when he played back that one in particular for some reason. All of these chords in a chord scale sound really beautiful together so not sure why that is. Would've also liked to see the C+ get some love too. I like this video and have only recently started watching your content, but please if you see this, don't be afraid to use those more dissonant chords!
Also! Probably not proper chord construction technique but the G# augmented sounds slightly better with the other chords than the G# minor to me.
This is one of the best music theory channels I've ever seen. Thank you very much for the lessons!
I was working on a solo for a simple change: C7(9) Bb7(9):II. I clicked on this video of a scale I haven't heard since 4th semester theory, and your example is in the relative minor of the song I'm writing. The perfect solo choice! Coincidence? You decide...Thank-you! 👽
Yusef Lateef also has this scale in his Repository as "Persian" or "Egyptian" scales, just different modes with a huge wealth of exercises to look into. It's also the Bhainav raga in Indian music so really expresses that Eastern sound, I love it!
Those chords are so dark and beautiful. Fantastic video!!!!
Just figured out that it's the Mixolydian Mode of this scale that gets you the Double Harmonic Minor Scale - aka, the Byzantine Scale.
Wow!
one of my favorite scales.
it just goes on forever.
I just used the "scale finder" tool, pick up the 7 notes (per octave) I like, and the tool finds for me just the "hungarian gypsy minor". Then I went to YT to check it out (how it sounds). I like it very much, and it's nothing weird in my case because I'm a depressive/dissonant black metal lover.
What a great teacher. This sounds like it could be a black metal intro.
When I improvise using this scale in the key of A#m, I would go with the following chord progression A#m, Am, F#, F. Sometimes I use A# diminished as a switching point between A#m and Am.
Love it love it love it! Thank you 😊🙏
I think that we can enharmonize "D#" (Eb) to form a chord of "Ab" with the next notes: "G#" (Ab), C and "D#" (Eb). And we can also use it as a Ab/F and there we have a "Fmin7". The function of this chord could be something like this: "Am" "Ab/F" "E6 9" "E" "Am". And it sound more like Bossa or even Jazz. Or "Am" "Ab/F" "G#m7" Am".
You have a point! Here's my retraction: ruclips.net/video/rEqql0GCrkg/видео.html
in Miles Davis's 𝐴𝑢𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑦, he claims that, at Juilliard (he was there for 3 semesters), he learned what HE called an "Egyptian minor scale"- which i've since learned was prob THIS Hungarian minor scale. Miles said he even hipped Dizzy Gillespie to this scale...
Pedal Bass is very good for these types of scales that don't form typical funcional chords. Pure modal delight.
On D# note we can build a D#dim (bb3) chord. Very exotic.
Oh my god. Thank you so much. This has to be the scale used in clean the intro of Blasphemian by Infant Annihilator. I love that clean guitar intro, and have been trying to figure out how to get that feel somehow, and this is it. Thank you!
Super interesting! I had never heard of the Hungarian Minor. Thank you for the video!
Very nice for acoustic too!
This guys is SO AWESOME! Just discovered his stuff. Very likeable as well. Perfecto.
So you get the Lydian with the raised fourth, plus the raised seventh of the harmonic minor. Interesting!
If I didn't miss anything, the most common other scaled named "double harmonic minor" can be obtained if you start the scale at "E" instead of "A", so these two scales might be considered different modes over the same scale.
As soon as I saw that B b5 I jumped to a Lydian sound. I was hoping you would bring up Bb5/A cause that really offers that Lydian feel
Excellent demonstration and super easy to understand. Hungarian minor FTW!
This is the first video by you that I came across. I just loved your style of teaching. Liked and subscribed!
Stravinsky actually used polychords made up of all the notes in this scale in The Rite of Spring
That was amazing! I've been fascinated with the Hungarian Minor Scale for quite some time. It's a really nice, exotic/dark sounding scale when used right, but it does require some understanding first. Thank you for that great video!
INSTA SUB!
P.S. An interesting song that uses it is the solo of Kind Diamonds's "Black Horsemen"
Andy LaRocque did an impressive job as always!
who asked kid
@@anthonybrank2429 Dick...Great song Anthony!
I think this is my favorite RUclips channel.
Your explanation is super!! Great channel. Thanks a lot for these videos.
Hello! I loved your explanation of the Hungarian Minor. I am trying to write a piano piece based off of this scale, so it really helped. Would you say that your book explains all the modes and scales like this? I am trying to see if it would be applicable to all instrumentalists other than only guitar. Thanks for this video!
Thanks :) Master of the Modes is designed for guitar, so I don't see it working for other instruments. The explanations are slightly different in there, as I do more "fretboard" work than here.
for D# note we can use the Augmented 6th Chord (Italian or French or German): D# - A - F (with repeated A or added either B or C) F at the bass & D# at the soprano. So it can be like that(F - A - {B or C or repeated A} - D#) Its resolution: F=> E - A=> G# - (repeated A or B or C) => B - D# => E So resolved to the Dominant Chord E
You are perfectly correct. I since made a video on the missing chord: ruclips.net/video/rEqql0GCrkg/видео.html
Now I'm trying to do a triphop song within that scale, wish me luck! It's such a dark sounding scale.
Nice video! :)
I personally use the 5th mode of the Hungarian Minor Scale when I want to get dramatic and exotic sounds :)
To get even more tension, you could modify the 5th mode so that it has a #4 :)
For example: C, Db, E, F#, G, Ab, B
Mixolydian b2 b6 #7?
@@qtube9234 Yes (if I undersand your #7 in the same way). Since some musicians notate the 7th degree differently, first I'll start with The Major Scale (Ionian) as a reference: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Then the 5th mode of The Hungarian Minor is 1 b2 3 4 5 b6 7. Another name of this scale is The Byzantine Scale :)
@@JereToikka Hmm. This scale is probably near the edge of too much tension for me :)
@@qtube9234 *natural 7
Fantastic video! Such a cool sounding scale!
The best example to get into this scale is the folk music of Romania, Transylvania and Hungary. mostly used for violin, accordion and clarinet, look for taraf of haidouks, they are virtuous and impressive
Romanian, Transylvanian and Hungarian folk music? Would love to hear some, do you have any artist suggestions?
In Greece we call it Niaved
The D "Chord" would be a very usable harmonic Shape consisting on D# (Eb) F A as 3 voices or F/Eb which is also a great sounding possibility.
Indeed. I changed my mind on this point, here's my retraction: ruclips.net/video/rEqql0GCrkg/видео.html
This feels like some vintage Silent Hill. I love it. I wonder if Akira Yamaoka used the Hungarian Minor in his compositions.
I find that the gypsy-style scales sound cool when you use the diatonic triads of the parent scale. It adds more dissonant possibilities, and some chords don't work ever, but the diatonic contrast really accentuates the character of the modified scale.
Very subdued and emotional.
Your channel is amazing, thanks for your lessons
Great lesson!
Very interesting. I'm going to create something nice with it.
On D#, I would build a D#sus2(b5) chord, made out of the notes D#, F and A.
Very enlightening, thank you!
What about the enharmonic G# major chord: G# "C" (actually B#) D#?
I think it's because the C note is already "taken" by the Am triad (A, C, E), but you can also use G# chord without leaving the mode.
Maybe one of those triads can be inverted with D# in the bass, to use for the 4th mode.
Yes, indeed it is possible. Here's how: ruclips.net/video/rEqql0GCrkg/видео.html
beautiful
The D# could be used in quartal harmony D#-G#-C-F... Which is really to say, Ab6 or Fm7
A little bit of "When the sun burns red" by Kreator from Coma of Souls or Diablo-ish...
lovely jobly
Thank you sir for this tutorial.....please make a tutorial about classical prelude and other related stuffs too...that would be more helpful....
Wow you just learned me that the mode (found it by ear) I use the most in my minor impros is actually called hungarian minor
That's how I found Phryigian Dominant lmao
Great video Tommaso! One of my favorite sounds!
Somehow bluesy but more mysterious sounding scale.
thank you, very enlightening explanation; ❤️❤️
New name:
The Opethian Scale
when he gave the chords round 4:20 minutes i was like instantly Opeth! and yes the name would fit perfectly
Sprinkle diminished scale and boom you got some spicey opeth going on
Actually it's the Ritchie Blackmore scale and both Opeth guys cite Ritchie Blackmore as one of their biggest influences.
@@toddwilliamson8557 name some songs that use it… I only know “smoke on the water” from them
Reminded me of Rush's "Cygnus X-1"
Thanks for the video, Tommaso! :)
That is also ,called nikriz scale
Thank to Will Wood i searched for Hungarian Harmonic, and now im here
hell yeah
You and I both, friend
Tomasso reads comments ❤️ just the video I was waiting for 😄
I have more coming :)
You can also get Fm and G#maj
Some progressions reminded me of Opeth...
Yeah, 70% of time they use this scale.
Fantastic! Thank you!
Great video
Thank you Tommaso... Great stuff... Another scary thing made simple 👍👌
D# to F is a diminished 3rd.
thank you very much
2 cluster chord ABC or d sharp ef ARe plauseable option
They make a interesting sound
thank you very much!
Fabulous lesson Tomasso. Love the content quality.
Thank you,Bravooo!
Very cool, I love the chord progressions!
This is also called "neveser" in Turkish Makam music
Very nice 👍
Nice!
You need one of this staff racks and five now markers!
D# ( #IV ) can be enharmonically written as F7/D# ( bVI7 )
Yes, you are correct! Here's more about it: ruclips.net/video/rEqql0GCrkg/видео.html
What a lesson 😉
Love your Chanel!! Thank u
A very common mode used in Turkish music. Itis called Hicaz kar.
Spooky scale ... Love 💗 it
Excelente. Gracias por la información.
on the fourth you really can technically build a triad, it's just a very weird one. it would just have a "diminished third", and would essentially be a diminished triad with a diminished third. I personally think it's worth messing around with in harmonies for this scale.
Helpful! Thank you!
let's compose some Black Metal...
diggin' it!
That will be awesome
The chords sounded like something opeth does but the solos sounds very much like how Marty friedman makes his solos.
Exactly what i think:)
Makes me think of Will Wood and the Tapeworms.
I'm Hungarian and I think that the chord on D# is indeed usable. It's actally an Italian sixth chord in root position (= a diminished triad with diminished third). Of course, its first inversion is more straightforward by being a plain old It6.
See also the last few bars of Crucifixus in Bach's mass in B minor with a German sixth in root position (dim7 with diminished 3rd).
harczymarczy yes!
the French augmented sixth also... chord with: F, A, B, D# (enharmonic of F7[#5] .
French +6 ---> E ---> A min.
Is a very strong cadence!
You are both correct. Here's more about it: ruclips.net/video/rEqql0GCrkg/видео.html